Word: standard
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...They have been working together in the last two days of practice and team-work has been developed rapidly. The line should show improvement as a result of Coach Kersberg's coaching. The ends, who played very well in the Bates game, will have to keep up to this standard as the substitutes are pushing them hard...
...this year for the first time Freshmen were called out for football practice before the opening of College, in order that the coaches could get some idea of the ability of the candidates. Mr. W. F. Garcelon L.'95 then dwelt on the vital importance of keeping up the standard of athletics by careful attention to College work. Coach Waterbury was the last speaker and explained what was expected of each man on the field. Steady and regular work is necessary to appreciate and understand football, which is the only way to win a place on the team. All candidates...
...four is invaluable. Severance at 3, with two years' experience on the University eight, is the best man in the boat. His rowing is always of a high order and he steadies the whole crew. This year's Yale four does not seem to be up to the usual standard. The crew seems to row much shorter than last year's four and the men all tear at the water without regard to form, but the boat seems to move fast. On the showing of both crews to date, Harvard should win this race...
...great population of Boston and its vicinity, and of the small natural resources of New England as compared with some other parts of the country. "And yet," he said, "I believe it would be hard to find any other spot in the whole world where the comfort and the standard of living are so high. Our success has been due to the intellectual and moral education of our people. It is with reason, therefore, that we can speak of education as our most important industry. The achievements of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been great--greater even than...
...years, while four-year residents should be obliged to take a degree with distinction or fail, would remove most of the difficulties, provided that degree were brought within the reach of the average man after four years' moderate work. Such an innovation would certainly tend to heighten the intellectual standard of the entire College. In addition, the honor degree would in all probability prove so much more valuable and asset as to induce the majority of those who are now graduated in three years to stay on; Senior year would no longer be more pleasure-seeking; and athletes would...